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Back in 2020 I went undercover to infiltrate the Amazon Fake Review Scam, then wrote about this "dark industry" on this blog.  If you haven't read our post yet, be sure to do so! Despite the effort I put into unraveling this scam, nothing came of it.  2 YEARS have passed with absolutely no action being taken.... until today...One of my fav newsletters, Retail Drive, just published this bombshell report!  Enjoy!In its Tuesday statement, Amazon stressed the need …

Here in the USA we are used to hearing about USA, China and Africa scammers, but it’s not that common for us to find articles about Facebook Marketplace scammers in New Zealand! Check out the crazy scam this lady was running:First of all, I wasn’t sure where exactly Wairarapa New Zealand was, so if you’re as curious as I was, here’s New Zealand on a map:And specifically, here’s where Wairarapa is located in NZ:So as you can see, these Facebook Marketplace scams are literally EVERYWHERE, even in …

There's some craziness going on with Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp today, all of which are owned by Facebook.  When the world tried to access their personal and business accounts today, 10-4-21 they were met with this error message instead:We don't know what specifically is going on but we know it started this morning with Facebook stock crashing:By 11:45am EST on 10-4-21 all three of the Facebook sites went offline. This event quickly made "#FacebookDown" trending on Twitter.& …

We often have people contact us to ask why we have not posted any new merchandise videos.  The truth is we do post new listings, 7 days a week, approximately 350 days per year!  So if you're not seeing our new posts on Facebook it's because FB unfortunately decided to change how your feed is shown to you.  For some bizarre reason Mark Zuckerberg decided that it would make the most sense to change your feed so you see what FB considers to be "most interesting" instead of "newe …

If you sell on Facebook this is one of the most important posts you will read this month.Facebook just updated their seller Terms last week and as part of the updated agreement, Facebook is (supposedly) offering transparency in Product Ranking. Let me point out that I have little-to-no trust in social media companies since our bogus YouTube termination in 2019 that resulted in a ton of money spent on a lawyer and nothing but form-letter replies from YouTube. It was devastating, frustrating and …